Combined portable wash-stand and bath-tub



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v Patented July 27, 13 0 W. s. CARPENTER; Combined Portable Wash Stand and Bath Tub.

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Combine d PortgbL Wash StandIand Bath Tub. I No. 230,403. Patented July 27, 1880.

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3O Hot water is furnished to the basin and bathtub from the apparatus in the stand below,

UNITED STATES PATENT O'EErcE.

WALTER s. CARPENTER, E WILKEsRA RE, PENNSYLVANIA.

COMBINED PORTABLE WASH-STAND AND BATH-TUB.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent.1\To. 230,403, dated July 27,1880.

Application filed J une 1,1880. (No model.)

. To all whom it may concern:

- is a specification.

My invention relates to a class of bath and washing apparatus in which, by suitable means, the combination of a portable bath-tub and wash-stand is made, and a provision is introduced by which hot water is supplied.

The object of the invention is to furnish the requisites and comforts of the bath-room where such are not available in the ordinary way, and to provide a device for the purpose, which may be placed in any room, removed from room to room or from house to house, as convenience or pleasure may dictate, and at small expense in comparison with the ordinary way. In effecting this I combine the ordinary bathtub and wash-stand with such other parts as are necessary in producing the result aimed at. The bath-tub may be of any suitable dimeir sions, and the perpendicular end attached to the side of the Wash-stand. The wash-stand presents outwardly the appearance of an ordinary wash-stand with a permanent basin. Below this basin the construction is peculiar.

where a neat compactly-built stove is placed, in connection with a tank containing water to be heated, which fits in the stand and snugly encompasses the top and nearly all of the back and sides of the stove.

The stand is suitably metal and asbestus lined to avoid danger from fire. The stove slips in and out of the niche, as may be re quired.

which keeps always the proper quantity of,

water in the tank if the pressure in the pipe is sustained.

A proper arrangement ofcatch-pan and pipes forms the waste-exits of the basin-stand and bath-tub, and a suitable connection at a proper level is made for taking the hot water from and into the bath-tub.

The Water thus used may be taken from the mains in towns where there is a water-supply, or it may be brought from a tank or reservoir properly located, where no such convenience as water-mains exists. In using a tank or reservoir for this purpose, it must necessarily be at such a relative elevation as to insure the proper flow.

The accompanying drawings form apart of this specification, and represent what I consider the best means of carrying out the invention.

Figure 1 is a side elevation. Fig. 2 is an end View, partly in section, from the left-hand end in Fig. l. The remaining figures representdetails detached. Fig. 3 is a view, showing the tank and ball-cock from the front. Fig. Lshows the furnace. Fig. 5shows the side of the metallined door. Fig. 6 shows the tank' and stove.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts in all the figures.

A is the wash-stand and B is the bath-tub. A basin, a, is permanently fixed to the marble slab, which is held onto the stand with dowels and fastened down by the basin-cock stand. Beneath it, and separated from it by a board partition, a, are the tank D and stove E.

The supply of water is brought through a supply or main pipe, 0, entering the stand near the top. A branch-pipe, 0, opens from the main pipe 0 into the tank D. .lt extends down nearly to the bottom of the tank, in order to deliver the cold water near the source of heat and avoid splashing and uneasiness when the water is pouring in. Near its connection with the main pipe it is provided with a ball-cock, c, which is controlled by a ball or Another branch pipe, 0 leading off from the main pipe G, rises above the top of the stand to furnish water to the basin a. It is provided with a cock, 0. From this connection the main pipe passes on into the bath-tub, entering it at any convenient height, and is here provided with a cock, 0*. In this waythe tank, basin, and bath-tub are all supplied from the same main pipe.

The tank D is formed to fit over the stove, and extends down the sides and back to the grate beneath the fire-chamber, in order that the tank may have as great amount of surface as possible exposed to the heat, and also to envelop the intensely hot portions of the stove, so that no strong radiation of heat may be thrown directly out against the wooden sides of the wash-stand. In the side or rear of the tank a hole is cut for the exit of the stove-pipe. This is placed at any convenient point, in order to accommodate the apparatus to any room, by meeting the chimney or flue conveniently.

From the tank D a hot-water pipe, 0 leads into the bath-tub. This should be as low as possible, in order that the contents of the tank may be withdrawn, and yet not low enough to draw the water from below the level of the top of the stove or furnace E. This pipe is provided with a cook, 0

The partition a. placed above the tank, is formed of wood or other suitable non-conducting material, in order to intercept the rising heat and confine it to the tank and surrounding aperture. The front of the stand is solid as far down as this partition, so that no heat can pass directly to the top of the stand. Below the partition the stand is formed with metal-lined doors a and ad, which, when closed, entirely conceal the interior tank and stove. At the free side of the stand an aperture or open-work, 12, is provided, covered with wire mesh. This affords a circulation of air, the cold air entering below and the heated escaping above. In this way the apparatus is useful in furnishing a heating means for the room in which it is situated.

The stove E fits into the open space in the tank and has its pipe passing out through the hole 01. It has adrop feed door or chute, e, at the top and an ash-pit door, 6, at the bottom. Its entire front is free, while its top and sides and back, as far down as the ash-pit or farther, are covered by the encirclingtank.

When it is desired to remove the stove the pipe is pulled off and the stove drawn out for the purpose of repairing said stove, or to replace the above-mentioned stove with a coal, oil, or gas stove for heating water in tank.

On the partition a, beneath the escape-opening in the basin a, is acatch-pan, n, which receives the waste water from the basin and conducts it to the waste-pipe P, through which it passes and joins the waste in the pipe P,which proceeds from the bath-tub. The bottom of the bath-tub is placed at some little elevation above the floor of the compartment, and under it are drawers N, to contain towels, sponge, 8:00., used in bathing; but these drawers may be dispensed with and the bottom of the tub lowered, leaving only room for connection and proper fall of waste-pipe from tub.

A box, M, is placed. on top of the washstand, to contain soap, brushes, or other articles, and is fitted with dowel-pins, so as to be removed without much trouble in case any repairs are needed inside to pipes, tanks, or cocks above.

What I claim is- 1. The combination, in one portable apparatus, of a wash-stand, A, bath-tub B, hot-water tank D, and heating-furnace E, or stove, arranged substantially as shown, andfor the purpose set forth.

2. In the combined wash-stand and bathtub having a tank and furnace, the combination, with said parts, of the main pipe 0, branch pipe 0, leading into the tank and having the ball-cock c, regulating automatically the flow of water, and branch pipe G having suitable cock, as shown, and for the purpose set forth.

3. In an apparatus as herein described, the tank D, fitting snugly into the stand beneath the wash-bowl, combined with the stove E, said tank enveloping said stove on top and sides and back as far down as the ash-pit, thereby protecting the wood-work from fire, substantially as and for the purposes herein described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, at Wilkesbarre, this 27th day of May, 1880, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

THEo. REIMFELD, W. S. PARSONS.

CARP ENTER. 

